Legislatures occasionally exempt themselves from the laws they pass, or they craft laws that apply to everyone except the executive or judicial branches, etc.
2006-07-11 05:47:22 · 4 answers · asked by wireflight 4 in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
You are talking about three different things here: (1) sovereign immunity, which shields governments from litigation arising from the government's governmental acts (i.e., when it is not acting as a producer or consumer, basically); (2) the immunity of individuals in government office, shielding them from litigation arising from their reasonable conduct of the office, and (3) specific exclusions of parts or all of the government from the operation of a statute, made by language in the statute itself.
While the first two may often be spoken of as aspects of sovereign immunity (though only the first is properly that doctrine), the third -- of which you seem to speak -- is not generally known as any named legal principle. I suspect the term you are after is sovereign immunity, though you may be somewhat unclear on the meaning. I hope having the correct term will help you to clarify your understanding of the subject. Good luck.
2006-07-11 06:01:25 · answer #1 · answered by BoredBookworm 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Sovereign immunity.
2006-07-11 05:54:02 · answer #2 · answered by mweller1956 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Diplomatic immunity? Not really sure.
2006-07-11 05:50:20 · answer #3 · answered by startwinkle05 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
fascism, look it up on this site, it is one of the very definitions of fascism
2006-07-11 06:01:26 · answer #4 · answered by hate dept 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋